Spring Framework Training: Introduction to the Spring 3 Framework training

Course Number: SPRG-102
Duration: 4 days
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Spring Framework Training Overview

Accelebrate's Spring Framework training course teaches attendees how to build Java applications using the Spring 3 framework.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/java.htm.

Spring Framework Training Prerequisites

All Spring 3 training attendees must have at least one year of full-time Java and JSP development experience. Prior experience with EJB and Java web services is recommended but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Spring Framework Training Materials

All attendees receive a copy of Manning’s Spring 3 in Action and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Java EE 5 or later-compliant application server of your choice (WebLogic, WebSphere, GlassFish, and JBoss are all readily supported); the course can also be run on Apache Tomcat 6
Eclipse for Java EE Developers
Related free software and lab files - please contact us for a detailed list

Spring Framework Training Objectives

Understand the core principles of Spring, and of Dependency Injection (DI) Inversion of Control
Use the Spring Core module and DI to configure and wire application objects (beans) together
Understand and use the complete capabilities of the Core module, such as lifecycle events, bean scopes, and the Spring API
Work with the DAO and or ORM modules to create a well-structured persistence layer with JDBC
Use Springs Data Integration with JDBC and technologies such as Hibernate or JPA.
Understand and use Spring's powerful new AOP capabilities for programming cross-cutting concerns across multiple points in an application
Understand and use Spring's transaction support, including its easy to use tx aop XML configuration elements and Java 5 annotations
Integrate Spring with Java EE Web applications
Understand how Spring MVC works using the new @Controller model, and use it to build basic Web applications
Understand the basics of Spring Security, and how to secure Web apps and Spring managed beans with it

Spring Framework Training Outline

Overview of Spring Technology

Shortcomings of Java EE, Spring Architecture

Spring Introduction

Managing Beans, The Spring Container, IoC, DI
Configuration Metadata - XML, @Component, Auto-Detecting Beans

Dependencies and Dependency Injection (DI)

Dependency Inversion, Dependency Injection (DI) in Spring, DI Configuration - XML, @Resource

Working with Bean Properties

Configuring Value Properties, Property Conversions, Setter / Constructor Injection

Spring Expression Language for Configuration

Collection Valued Properties

Configuring and using lists, sets, etc.

Additional Capabilities

Factory Methods, Bean Aliases, Definition Inheritance (Parent Beans)

The Spring Container and API

ApplicationContext

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, Constructors, Usage

Resource Access - Overview, Resource Implementations
Validation

Overview, JSR-303
Declarative Validation, @NotNull, @Size, @Min, etc
Configuration, Injection

Bean Scope and Lifecycle

Bean Scope Defined, Configuring, Inner Beans, Bean Creation Lifecycle, Lifecycle Callbacks, BeanPostProcessor, Event Handling

MessageSources

Defining and Using Resource Bundles, Localization/I18N

Annotation Driven Configuration

Stereotypes: @Component, @Service, @Controller, @Repository
Java EE 5 Annotation Support
Defining Custom Annotations
Autowiring

Java Based Bean Metadata (JavaConfig)

Overview - code-centric Configuration
@Confguration, @Bean, and @Value
Importing and @Import
Autowiring in Configuration Classes
Mixing XML Configuraiton and @Configuration
XML vs Annotation Based Configuration

Other Capabilities

SpEL - Spring Expression Language
Validation

Database Access with Spring

Issues with JDBC / Typical JDBC Flow
Introduction to Spring DAO Support

Spring Database API, (Simple)JdbcTemplate, (Simple)JdbcDaoSupport, DataSources,
Working With and Configuring, <list>, <set>, With Bean Refs, <map>, <props>

Queries and Inserts

RowMapper, ParameterizedRowMapper, Passing Arguments, queryForObject, query, update

Additional API Capabilities

Additional query methods, Passing Type Arguments, queryForList, FetchSize, MaxRows

Using Spring with Hibernate

Overview of Template Approach, SessionFactory configuration
Using Contextual Sessions

Using Spring with JPA

LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean, LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean, JNDI, PersistenceUnitManager
DAO Support - @PersistenceUnit, @PersistenceContext

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

Overview of AOP

AOP Basics, Aspect, Joinpoint, Advice, Pointcut

Introduction to Spring AOP

Capabilities, Configuration (Annotation Based and XML), Weaving, Joinpoints

Using Aspects

Defining Advice, Configuring Pointcuts, Targets and Proxies
XML Configuration with <aop:>
AspectJ Pointcuts, Autoproxies

Using @AspectJ Annotations

Spring Transaction (TX) Management

Intro to Spring Transaction Management

Overview, Component TX Model, TX Propagation, Declarative Transactions, TransactionManagers

Using Spring Transactions
Annotation Configured Transactions

@Transactional and its settings

XML Configured Transactions

new <tx:*> elements, Configuring tx:advice, and tx:attributes
Defining the TX advisor

Introduction to Spring Web Integration and Spring MVC

Integrating Spring with Java EE Web Apps, ContextLoaderListener, WebApplicationContext
Spring Web MVC Overview, Capabilities, Architecture
Spring MVC Basics

DispatcherServlet, Configuration, mvc Namespace
Controllers, @Controller, Handler Methods
@RequestParam and Parameter Binding
View Resolvers
Writing Controllers, @Controller, @RequestMapping, @RequestParam, @PathVariable
Forms and Binding, Spring Form Tags, @ModelAttribute
Session Attributes, @SessionAttributes

Overview of Spring Security

Overview - Capabilities, Architecture
Introduction to Spring Security

HTTP Security
Method Security
Annotation-Based Security
Expression-Based Access Control

Authentication Providers

Conclusion

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